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by emn13 9y ago
having used these programs for many years: the color casts caused by f.lux don't typically match surrounding light, even when everything switches roughly simultaneously (which is rare, because of all kinds of artificial sources that ar
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by emn13 9y ago
The two aren't mutually exclusive. With laws as vague and broad as they are it's easy to conceive of a situation wherein charges are brought "after the fact" - as in, not because whatever occurred was significant enough
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by emn13 9y ago
Frankly: why would you want to follow sunset to sunrise? That's clever and all, but not useful. What matters is your sleep schedule; just because the sun doesn't set until after 10pm doesn't mean you monitor needs to be
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by emn13 9y ago
Isn't what you're saying kind of exactly the point of the article in the first place? The conclusion even explicitly points out that the aim was not to actually claim small functions are harmful(!), but rather that the converse
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by emn13 9y ago
I kind of agree with you (I think), but I'd present (or think) about it differently to avoid terminological squabbling. More specifically: I'm skeptical of the distinction that your referenced article attempts to introduce between
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by emn13 9y ago
If that's the case, then the burden of proof for copyright-based censorship is questionably low in this UK scheme. I mean, mail.ru clearly has a primarily non-CP non-infringement purpose; banning it (is it actually banned?) should have
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by emn13 9y ago
How would markets prevent this? The only party interested in adblocking is the consumer, who isn't the supplier nor the customer of ads. Now, if there were some real alternative to ads; but nobody has found that yet. I suppose regula
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by emn13 9y ago
Yeah. You clearly intend for this newfangled freedom of speech thing to protect critical commentary, avoid repression and promote the exchange of valuable ideas; and all of the sudden people apply it in all kinds of nonsensical counterprodu
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by emn13 9y ago
I kind of suspect adblocking is doomed to die rather quickly if it ever seriously threatens the ad industry. As anti-adblock has shown even fairly trivial measures can be effective; and if you control the platform in more depth you can be a
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by emn13 9y ago
It's a pipe dream; but advertising/lobbying deserves regulatory hurdles much like other public health threats (e.g. tobacco). And before anyone shouts "freedom of speech" - we already do that extensively for stuff like
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by emn13 9y ago
There's a difference between a small risk of long-term injury (a risk you run in different ways if you're not doing sports, I might add), and near certain brain damage. Not all sports have so grim an outlook - and I bet football t
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by emn13 9y ago
That were captured and escaped? In which pay actually was docked? In which they can remember and document this? That are still alive today? That can't be more than a handful.
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by emn13 9y ago
He might have spent the money in ways that later benefited him - even if he bought a house that was 13$ more expensive, given the housing boom during his lifetime in many locations he would have made more than a 6% return. You're never
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by emn13 9y ago
All those other cases of escaped prisoners of war?
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by emn13 9y ago
If hosting is enough to be considered present in the US, then the US cloud providers better get ready for some unpleasantly stiff competition. I'm not sure it's a factor here.
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by emn13 9y ago
The fact that they go on disk is a pro, not a con; and the fact that they're one character not multiple is also a pro and a not a con: what's the point of the individual characters? Those were merely introduces as a necessary wo
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by emn13 9y ago
But isn't that exactly what extensions are for - to enable power users or simply niche use cases to flourish without bogging down the UI and codebase for everyone else? I would have liked Hello (or really, any decent chat applicati
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by emn13 9y ago
But for small pdfs, the in-browser pdf viewer is typically faster. I use lots of PDFs and while I read most in adobe reader, I still appreciate the in-browser rendering: it's often good enough, and stuff like smooth scrolling and tabb
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by emn13 9y ago
You are, of course, completely right - I clearly misremembered that!
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by emn13 9y ago
Yeah me too - and even the last three(perf/mem, extension breakage, and OS support) are partially questionable - FF has essentially always been better behaved in low-memory scenarios that chrome; and desktop OS support is (again, to th
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by emn13 9y ago
You seriously think that removing the ability to disable javascript (well, not really, you still can - just not as easily) is in any way a factor? Which other browser makes this easier? Pocket? Hello? Really? Firefox memory usage has for
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by emn13 9y ago
You are in a better place though - because you're not the only react user. If indeed it turns out there are some submarine react patents facebook owns, with this patent license most other users can continue to work. Without the l
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by emn13 9y ago
Yeah, I agree completely. I just think that kind of behavior deserves a certain small amount of opprobrium ;-).
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by emn13 9y ago
Well, maybe they're actually simply competitive ;-). And don't forget that factories cost a lot, as does training personnel - so if poland happened to have a stable enough climate and rules that don't scare away investors, th
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by emn13 9y ago
I think it's possible too. But also think it's a little implausible nobody realized what was going on: longevity is too important (if only for guarantee purposes) for producers to have completely forgotten about it - well, most of
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by emn13 9y ago
But that example is also great for another reason: very slight changes and a slightly less aggressive driving might well achieve orders of magnitude greater life expectancy at virtually no performance difference. The problem specifically
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by emn13 9y ago
I think it's an unwarranted assumption that cheap necessarily implies "breaks quickly". Some cheap things last for eons; others don't - if anything, the low-end market may well be a place where the largest improvements
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by emn13 9y ago
It's probably simply a question of the "lawless" open seas permitting absurdly excessive tragedy of the commons-style tradeoffs. You don't need to go all the way to nuke-carriers; plain old combustion can be much, much c
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by emn13 9y ago
The cost of moving things like fridges is almost entirely in the last few miles. Shipping heavy things is really, really cheap (in bulk).
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by emn13 9y ago
There are at least a few additional options to those three to consider here: - The manufacturer doesn't so much want it to break, but rather, they expend no effort avoiding short lifespans, even where trivial. With enough components

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